Puppies here! Puppies there! Puppies everywhere!

OOPS! Last year at the 4Th July Party I hosted my dog got pregnant. She mated with my friends dog. He was an all black Pomeranian and she is a Shih -tzu. She wound up having 4 puppies and none of them looked alike! They were born very late in the evening on September 2. We were not ready for puppies but they were so darn cute!

The first puppy out was all black with white feet I called this one socks till she went home and her owner named her Schaztie . The second one out was black and white all over she eats non-stop she was the first to the food bowl and the last to leave so I called her Chubbs, the third one was brown and white and we knew who her owner was and so we always called her by her actual name which changed several times before it was decided on as Mayzi. The last one was all brown with white feet I called this one shoes until she went home and they named her Vixie. I didn't technically charge for the puppies when we found them homes I simply asked people to help me pay for the shots.

Here are some old pictures but still cute I think of all the puppies.


This one is now called Vixie and she lives next door to us at our friends house.

This one is now called Annabella and she lives at our house. She did go to another home for a short while but the woman who owned her sadly lost her job and so she brought her back, I tried a few other people to take her but nothing worked out. I decided that she was destined to stay home with me and so I kept her and re-named her. Mostly because my husband did not like that all of the puppies names ended in and "e" sound. Mayzi, Schatzie, Vixie, not to mention the fact that we already have two dogs named Lucy and Zoe. Since Annabella is very full figured and black and white I decided I wanted to name her after a 1950's actress and or pin-up girl so I googled some names and narrowed it down to Sabrina and Annabella. I decided on Annabella who was an actress most famous for her role in the Bridal Suite.

This one is Mayzi and the people who took her were the owners of the stud that breed with Zoe.

And last but not least is Schatzie. She is a little spit-fire. She lives across the street and I think because Vixie, Zoe, and Annabella are all across the street she has a tendency to feel left out so she often escapes and comes over to our house to play.

All four puppies are in this picture but for whatever reason Schatzie has blended in well with the cage plus Zoe's hair is kind of blocking her too.

Schatzie jumped down she was sick of pictures.

Birthdays

This post is what I am going to call the bad mother post! Last year I did not post any pictures from my children's birthday parties. I know I am bad. I took pictures I just did not post them. I was very lazy and just did not feel like sitting at the computer and posting pictures. I am not going to post all of the pictures but I figured I should post some. There are pictures from Aurora's and Leif's parties.

This one is not actually at his party but it was right after. I took this picture because he got a new bed set and also the transformers for his birthday. You can tell he did not want to pose for this one.

Bill's Graduation

When my brother graduated with his bachelor's degree he did not participate in graduation and my dad was disappointed...understandable. Needless to say when my brother continued on with his master's degree Dad asked him to promise to participate in graduation.

Even though my brother did not want to he did it anyway...for our dad. Pictures with my Dad tend to be few and far between I have some good pictures here of my brother and Dad at his graduation.


I like this one because they are both smiling!

Little man looks like he is mad but a cute picture anyway!

I really liked the waterfall in the background.

I have a really great zoom feature on my camera and so you can actually see Bill's face in the sea of graduates.

McCalls Pumpkin Patch

Every year around Halloween we go to a place called McCalls Land and Cattle Co. Normally it is a farm but they make most of their money at Halloween when they invite the community to come and pick out pumpkins. They have a 3 mile long maize maze and they have hay rides out to the pumpkin patch along with pedal karts to ride and jumping pillows and many other fun activities for the kids. I love to go with the family it is one of my favorite things to do.

This year we went with some friends of ours. We went with my neighbor Nancy and her son Dianni along with one of our friends from high school D.J.



This is the only picture that I have of us carving pumpkins. I thought I had more but I didnt want to make a seperate posting since this is the only one that I had.

Aurora on the jumping pillow. It was interesting because they requested that the littler kids be on one end of the pillow while the older kids be on the other. I tried to stay in the middle so that I could get pictures of both of my kids.

I like this picture because I caught Aurora in mid-air. Believe me this was a harder task than you can imagine.

My friend Nancy in Mid-air. I wish this had not come out blurry but still a good picture.

Leif, I think he was nervous to bounce at first because last year in the first 30 seconds of him bouncing he bit his lip and it started to bleed and this year he didnt want me to leav his side.

Another good one of my little girl bouncing she was having a blast!

He would not leave my side so I was trying to step back and get a picture so I was standing above him when I took this picture.

Aurora was laughing because if an adult on one side of the pillow would blounce then it would pop up a person on the other side and send you flying. My legs were so tired after 5 minutes of bouncing.

Inside the corn maize. The kids had fun. It did not feel like a very long maize. In years past we would sit and try to figure out where we were inside the maize and where we were going and this year it was a very very easy maze. I was disappointed because we made it through so fast. I almost wanted to go through it again.

In the center of the maize there is a platform that you can go up and stand and view the maze from above. Of course my son would not pay attention to mommy so I could get a picture.

I dont remember seeing this pond before but it was there this year and I thought it was a great place for a photo but the only person who would go with me was Aurora.

I have to say that it was hard to do a self picture and get the background in the back the way that I wanted.

Cute picture I think espcially since you can see the reflection of the clouds on the water.

At the bottom of the slide that goes through the minature mountain. I dont know what is so special about this slide but the kids love it!

Little man at the bottom of the slide...at least one time anyway he went down it several times.

I love this picture of Aurora but mostly because Leif is always saying she is his little doppleganger.

Whats funny about this picture is that I don't think that we noticed their similar poses until I went to post this.

Little man at the bottom again I think he was getting up to run back to the top again!

Aurora at the bottom again!

This year they added a new miniature old western city. It had a salon and a sheriffs office, a school house and market. This was inside the market.

Aurora in the market playing with a fake potato which i found rather funny since we were on an actual farm.

The kids in the saloon playing at the "bar" Leif was too short I think he was standing on a box.

D.J standing next to the goats. You could feed the goats and I have to say that they were aggressive things. I dont like when the kids stick their hands through the fence because the goats will knock each other out of the way and the last thing that I wanted is a smashed hang from two aggressive goats.

Dianni waiting his turn to feed the goats. I love his kermit the frog hat!

Im giving the kids the food so they can feed the mean goats!

Aurora and Dianni feeding the goats.

The "kids" Leif is the goat, Dj is the sheep, Aurora is the horse,Dianni is the cow, and Leify is the pig.

Aurora on the cow train...which is really a lawn mover pulling a bunch of plastic barrells painted like cows.

All of the kids at the entrance to McCalls on a haystack...one day I will get a good picture with all of them looking in the right direction.

Just not today...

My 30th Birthday Party

I am 30!!!!!!!!
This year I turned 30 and we celebrated with a bang! When we have any kind of event or party normally I plan everything. Whether it be for myself or my husband or for the kids. I do all of the planning and organizing and this year I told my husband I did not want to plan my own party and it was up to him to throw me a party. I did not leave him to sink completely I asked two of my very dear friends Vickie and Tammy to help him out, and truthfully I think they did most of the planning themselves.

They invited all of my friends to come to the house and they decorated the garage, our parties tend to start in the house and end in the garage. This time we started in the garage and ended in the house.

From left to right Vickie, Nancy, Tia, Shaundra, Me, Jessica, Julia, Tammy. This is not all of the friends that came to the party but these were all of the women that came at the beginning of the party for the picture.

My friend Julia she is another interpreter I work with..I love her!!!

One of my besties Tammy she and Vickie helped to plan the party and she looked fabulous!

I really love this picture! I did my hair myself and I think it looks great in this picture.

My cousin Jessica and I, I was looking down at my phone which you can actually see at the bottom of this picture but still a cute picture.

They gave me some great necklaces to wear and buttons and they gave me a neon magic wand. One of the great things was that they gave everyone goodie bags and inside there were crowns and hair clips we all wore them that night!

Tammy with her crown looking all sexy!

Just having fun enjoying ourselves !

Molly with her crown looking fabulous!

Andrew, Molly's boyfriend...he didn't sport a crown that night.

Julia and her boyfriend Rashawn showing off their crowns...sorry if I spelled Rashawn wrong.

I wanted to have a picture of me with all of the guests I tried to be the third wheel of all of the couples. From left to right, Andrew, me and Molly.

Molly, Me and Julia...I love the look on molly's face!

Julia, Me and Rashawn all of us with our crowns!! I love that as a man he was not afraid to wear his!

Tia, Me and Shaundra, you can kind of see Shaundra's crown beneath all of this beautiful curls!

Latressa, Me and Tammy!

Leif, Me and Jessica. Jessica's man didn't come.

Me and my Husband notice the beautiful flowers he bought me in the background. He is flipping off Jessica not me,nice honey!

My Birthday cake! I loved absolutely everything about that party and that night! It was by far the best birthday ever!

I believe I was blowing out the candles but that part of the picture was cut off.

Jessica hanging out near the food...it was a potluck and there was so much food I didn't get to taste everything but what I did eat was delicious!

For those of you who don't know me very well I am famous for finding the most weak chair or the chair that is almost broken and sitting in it...and of course it always breaks! My birthday would not have been complete without me breaking a chair! Here I am after I broke the chair.

Its hard to believe that I am 30 now but it was indeed the best birthday party I have ever had! Thank you so much guys for a wonderful time.